"Sancho Panza, with his faithful companion Dapple, is a gem of a picture, about the size of our engraving, painted by Landseer in 1824, but never exhibited.  It came into the possession of the late Mr. Sheepshanks, and is now in the collection at South Kensington Museum, London.  The incident represented is that which happened to Sancho when, after abdicating the government of the island of Barataria, and riding out to join his master, the chivalrous knight of La Mancha, he and his donkey fell into a very deep hole among the ruins of some old buildings."  (Art Journal 1877)      [Some foxing around the border, which will not be visible after matting/framing.[